wasta

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa)

wasta (plural wastas)

1. (Arab society, often italicized) Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood
   • 2025 June 15, Syed Rashid Husain, “'Wasta' at US Embassy”, in Arab News‎^[1]:

     The number of those traveling to the US during summer may definitely have gone down, but if one can hook onto a wasta, one could get into the queue of applicants without having to get up early in the morning.

• connections, nepotism, cronyism

• wasta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• tawas

Borrowed from Old Javanese wasta, wastha (“title, name”), wasthā, awasthā (“state, condition; circumstance, fate; course”), from Sanskrit अवस्था (avasthā, “condition, state”).

wasta (Balinese script ᬯᬲ᭄ᬢ) (alus sor)

1. name

• “wasta” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

wasta

1. romanization of ꦮꦱ꧀ꦠ

wasta

1. alternative spelling of wastha (“title, name”)

From Old Javanese wasta, wastha (“title, name”), wasthā, awasthā (“state, condition; circumstance, fate; course”), from Sanskrit अवस्था (avasthā, “condition, state”).

wasta (Sundanese script ᮝᮞ᮪ᮒ)

1. (lemes) name

   Tepangkeun, wasta sim kuring James ― Let me introduce myself, my name is James